Improved washing-machine



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Letters Patent l-vVo. 83,325, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

The Scheduled referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME in the county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Washing-Machine and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact SCOTT, of Charleston,

description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which Figure l is a perspective view the handle E slightly raised, and Figure 2 a sectional view of th line x x of g. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate co parts. v

The nature of my invention consists in the manner in which I hang, connect, and operate, in my washing- 'rnachine, a swinging bucket and press-board, which are made to approach and depart from each other alternately, by the'up-and-down movement of the handle.

To do this, I build my tub oblong, with an arc-shaped bottom, as shown at A, in the accompanying drawings, square and flat-bottomed, if desired. From the bearings B, set inthe top of the sides, B, of the tub, I hang, by means ofthe axle C, the swinging-lever bucket, D, which is moved backward and forward through the tub by means of the handle E, set between the levers F. is shaped to. au arc corresponding with the bottom of the tub, and part ofthe boards 'forming its bottom are left slightly apart, so as toform the openings f, for the 4purpose of permitting the water to pass from the bucket into the tub as it is squeezed from the clothes. The boards forming the back of the bucket are corrugated for the purpose of presenting uneven surfaces to the clothes, and are left apart in the same manner as the bottom boards, although holes can be used the water from the bucket, if desired. From the sides of the tub are run up the supports R, and braces G. From the bearings g, in 'the top ofthe support R, is hung the press-board, H, by means of its arms I and axle J. This press-board has its cross-boards corrugated and separated in the same manner and for the same purpose as the back-boards ofthe swinging bucket, and is connected to the levers F of the swinging `bucket by means ofthe arms K. When the machine is not of the machine, with e same, taken on the rresponding yin operation, the front of the press-board H lies close The bottom of this bucket to carry off f *Ow-. I

against the inside of the back ofthe swinging bucket D,

and both on a line perpendicular with the top of the tub, and in its centre. When the handle E is raised, the swingingbucket I) is drawn towards the end of the tub marked 1'. This movement of the swinging bucket throws the ends of the levers F, and the arms K attached to them at a, towards the end of the tub 2, and the other ends of the arms K, being attached to the arms I of the swinging press-board H, at '1), the pressboard is also pushed back towards that end of the tub, thus separating it from the swinging bucket. When ,thus separated, the clothes are placed in the bucket D,

' and the handleE is pressed down, which brings together the press-board H, and the inside of the back of the bucket D, thus squeezing the clothes between them. The handle E is then raised, which causes the bucket and the press-board to move in opposite directions, as before stated. This movement causes the clothes to fall from the back of the bucket, up against which they were pressed by the press-board, down in its bottom, where they lie until the handle E is moved down, when they are again pressed up against the back ofthe bucket by means ofthe press-board, as before shown, and are consequentlyY turned by every upward motion of the handle E, and pressed by every downward motion. The bearings, B and y, are left open at the top, to admit of the removal ofthe axles C and J therefrom. The axle J is provided 'with the hooks m, by means of which it is hooked down to the supports R. N is a spicket to let off the water from the tub, and o are its legs.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The swinging bucket D, as arranged and connected, by means ofthe arms K, with the press-board'H, and operated by the levers F and handle E, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing' invention, I have hereunto set my hand, this 5th day of Septemlber, 1868.

JEROME SCOTT.

Witnesses l GEO. W. MCGILL, FRANK TRIGG. 

